Groundwork
Published by:
Gnomon Press (Paperback 1979)
Published by:
Gnomon Press (Hardcover 1979)
Included poems:
The Hollow
Blue Ridge
Fear
Plankroad
Huckleberry Bald
Appalachian Trail
Mountain Bride
The Flying Snake
Lost Flower
Real and Ethereal
Galacker: The Galax Gatherer
Sport
Otis
Snowlight
Death Crown
Canning Time
Burnoff
When the Ambulance Came
Slop Bucket
Walnutry
Baptism of Fire
Bean Money
Huckleberries
Reuben's Cabin
Upstairs at the Country Store
Wallowing
Bricking the Church
Tear Bottle
Burning the Hornet's Nest
Milksick Pen
Smokehouse Dirt
Blackberries
Pigeon Loft
Mountain Page
Zircon Pit
Secret Pleasures
Den Tree
Devil's Courthouse
Trash
Praying Through
Related media:
Mountain Bride (poem)
Praise for Robert Morgan:
There is comfort and humor in Morgan's evocation of country people trying to survive.
— Publishers Weekly. . .
Robert Morgan's writing is... clear and simple, yet it possesses a luminous poetic quality, a rough beauty hewn from the countyside and from old, forgotten ways.
— The Philadelphia Inquirer. . .
The poet laureate of Appalachia.
— Kirkus Review. . .
Featured works:
The Dead Alive and Busy: Selected Essays of Robert Morgan
Published March 2026 by
University of Tennessee Press
Uplands: Selected Stories
Published October 2025 by
Jesse Stuart Foundation
Collected Early Poems of Robert Morgan
Published December 2024 by
Press 53
In the Snowbird Mountains and Other Stories
Published May 2023 by
Press 53
Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Published November 2023 by
Louisiana State University Press
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